United States Committee on Rules
Published: 2017-11-30
Total Pages: 74
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Excerpt from Hearings on House Resolution No. 179, Authorizing the Committee on Labor to Investigate Conditions Existing in the Westmoreland Coal Fields of Pennsylvania: Hearings Held Before the Committee on Rules, House of Representatives, May 31, 1911 Mr. Wilson. After the discharge of the men, and when t e mass meeting was held for the purpose of considering what line of policy they Should pursue for the protection of the men who had been dis charged and the means of securing their reinstatement, being in for a lamb they considered that they might just as well be hung for a sheep. So they included in their resolution a demand for an increase in wages that would put them on a basis with the Pittsburg field. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.